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06/04/10 | New Video Shows Butchery of Bushmeat Trade

A new Mendip Media video for the Cameroon primate charity, Ape Action Africa, is about to be unveiled on You Tube. It shows the devastating effects of the bush meat trade on West Africa’s fragile ape population.

With a new UN report warning that gorillas may become extinct in as little as 15 years; a revision of previous predictions that gorillas in the Congo Basin would lose 90% of their present habitat by 2030 or be killed by poaching or disease - the figure makes sobering reading.

Increasingly, the report goes on, mining and logging camps are hiring professional poachers to kill ‘bush meat’ for their workers.

Mendip Media’s creative director, Nicky Robertson, says, “there is no time to wring our hands about this crisis. We have to act now and spread the word about what is happening to our closest relatives in the wild. We hope that in a small way we can bring pressure to bear on those who run the logging concessions to conserve not kill the primate populations of West Africa.”

Mendip Media works for Ape Action Africa pro-bono providing social media and video consultancy.
 

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